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Faulty equipment
11/24/2013

Pros: The idea is great and if the box worked as designed, I would be happy. You get great reception and the saving to a usb drive works great and the files are smaller than other styles.

Cons: It doesn't work right. the first box I got it would not save any channels. The replacement box loads the channels, but not all of them??? When you attempt to schedule a program, there are only a few channels available and then you can't even schedule them. That makes the scheduler useless. I attempted to record a 2 hour Christmas movie for my wife using the manual record button and it cut off after 1 hour 45 min, so she missed the last 15 minutes - again useless. The led lights on the front keep going of and on with weird symbols and numbers. The box just cuts of on its own without anything being pressed.??? You can't get any tv channel listings to come up at all, it just searches and searches. I called the tech support at the company and they just told me to send it back to NewEgg - so I did on the first one. I will be sending back the 2nd it looks like. Sometimes it will recognize my USB drive and other times it won't.?? I use cable, so all the available channels should be there, but they are not, including "local" channels.

Other Thoughts: This has really been frustrating and I like playing with new devices, but after a while it gets old when it continues to break down. You can understand a couple of glitches, but these are major, major glitches. There are no firmware fixes for this model that I can find, just another version. The biggest is the unit cutting off at intermittent times when recording. Who want a unit that you can't trust? I will continue to use my DVD recorders I guess. Like I said the tech support the first box was of no help at all and I don't even think I will call them this time.